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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: feathers vs. gold  **SPOILER**
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Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 18:50:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 14 18:50:27 1985
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Summary: hey...wait a minute!

In article <902@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
>> I) Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?
>
>   One pound of feathers weighs 453.59 grams.
>   One pound of  gold    weighs 373.2  grams.
>   
>   One ounce of feathers weighs 28.35  grams.
>   One ounce of  gold    weighs 31.103 grams.
>
>   For many years I have been afraid that this riddle would become
>outdated - but I have feared for naught - it doesn't look as if we
>will ever go metric.
>
>--henry
>
>P.S. Don't blame me, this is the way these things are weighed and
>sold in standard commercial circles.

Gosh, I always thought that weight and pounds referred to FORCE.  Is it
time to resurrect the slug?

-dave
-- 
David Hsu	Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department
		University of Maryland,  College Park, MD 20742
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